▪ I. assimilating, vbl. n.
(əˈsɪmɪleɪtɪŋ)
[f. assimilate v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. assimilate; assimilation.
| 1779 Sheridan Critic i. i. (1883) 152 The poverty of your own language prevents their assimilating. 1881 Daily News 18 Aug. 6/5 Assimilating of the Law of Exchange. |
▪ II. aˈssimilating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That assimilates.
| 1651 Rawleigh's Apparition 84 There is vis assimulatrix, an assimulating power. 1829 S. Turner Hist. Eng. IV. ii. xxxvii. 563 The Spanish writers and their assimilating partisans. |